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Publication year: 2010
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Readership
All those interested in history of science and technology, the history of philosophy, the history of ideas, as well as cross-cultural comparisons between China and the West.
About the author(s)
Hans Ulrich Vogel, Ph.D. (1983) in Sinology, Zürich University is Professor of Chinese History and Society at Tübingen University. He has published mainly on the history of society, economy, science and technology in premodern China.
Guenter Dux, Dr. iur., University of Bonn, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Freiburg University; Germany. He has published mainly on the sociology of culture, sociology of social and cultural change and sociology of politics.
Mark Elvin, Ph.D. (1968) in Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, is Professor Emeritus of Chinese History at the Australian National University. He has published mainly on economic and environmental history as well as history of technology in China.
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This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world’s leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the natural world. The domains covered principally include philosophy, language, poetry, science, and mathematics, and their relations with society, technology, and politics. By analyzing the frequent partial similarities between these great two cultural areas in the context of their overall contrasts, it points the way for the first time to defining accurately the differences that have been critical for world history.
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